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The Holocene calendar, also known as the Holocene Era or Human Era (HE), is a year numbering system that adds exactly 10,000 years to the currently dominant (AD/BC or CE/BCE) numbering scheme, placing its first year near the beginning of the Holocene geological epoch and the Neolithic Revolution, when humans shifted from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to agriculture and fixed settlements.
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...
Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era. Common Era and Before the Common Era are alternatives to the original Anno Domini (AD) and Before Christ (BC) notations used for the same calendar era. The two ...
This calendar is used within Jewish communities for religious purposes and is one of two official calendars in Israel. In the Hebrew calendar, the day begins at sunset. The calendar's epoch, corresponding to the calculated date of the world's creation, is equivalent to sunset on the Julian proleptic calendar date 6 October 3761 BCE. [2]
Assyrian calendar: 4750: Balinese saka calendar: N/A: Bengali calendar: −593: Berber calendar: 950: Buddhist calendar: 544: Burmese calendar: −638: Byzantine calendar: 5508–5509: Chinese calendar: 己未年 (Earth Goat) 2697 or 2490 — to — 庚申年 (Metal Monkey) 2698 or 2491: Coptic calendar: −284 – −283: Discordian calendar ...
Because the start of Hanukkah is tied to the Hebrew calendar, the dates change from year to year and the holiday can happen between late November and late December. Christmas Day is always Dec. 25.
The year 700 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.In the Roman Empire, it was known as year 54 Ab urbe condita.The denomination 700 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Discordian calendar: 1123: Ethiopian calendar: −51 – −50: Hebrew calendar: 3717–3718: Hindu calendars - Vikram Samvat: 13–14 - Shaka Samvat: N/A - Kali Yuga: 3057–3058: Holocene calendar: 9957: Iranian calendar: 665 BP – 664 BP: Islamic calendar: 685 BH – 684 BH: Javanese calendar: N/A: Julian calendar: 44 BC XLIV BC: Korean ...